The WebScaler

These days with the super powers pointing the finger at each other for cyber warfare, I was interested to find out where they do they really originate from? After a bit of Googling there are quite a few websites from security vendors that show real time cyber-attacks occurring across the globe. I was quite surprised to see that it’s not just the super powers but nearly every nation and some are even attacking themselves! So, if you have nothing better to do and want to make your monitor look busy, visit the below sites and bring some popcorn. You might even spot the next ransomware attack!         http://map.norsecorp.com/#/   https://threatmap.checkpoint.com/ThreatPortal/livemap.html

What I’ve noticed for a while now is customers will always ask for these features and whilst they are great technologies, I see little relevance for them in today’s SDS environments. Why is that you ask? Well, if you look at auto-tiering this was introduced into storage arrays 10 years ago when SSD’s were really expensive. The SSD’s in the storage array were used to store hot blocks of data and overtime auto-tier those blocks down to magnetic media as the data got colder. In order to keep track of those blocks the storage array will need to consume extra CPU and memory to continuously run algorithms to find out which blocks to move and which blocks not to move…yet. Now that SSD’s are at the cross point of being cost competitive with magnetic media, the notion of auto-tiering will be irrelevant in the very near future if you ask me. One huge benefit of going all SSD is that you don’t have to worry about which type of volume to assign or is their enough performance for the applicati...